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Brooklyn youth are getting their own version of March Madness through a partnership between the city's Department of Education and the borough's home basketball teams, the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty.The partnership announced on March 22 will offer free basketball clinics taught by youth coaches from the Nets and Liberty to all Brooklyn elementary and middle schoolers during their gym periods.

A decision by the Los Angeles Dodgers to honor the long-running Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is outraging right-wingers.The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence first formed in San Francisco in 1979.A group of gay men in nun-like drag, they preached about the benefits of living authentic lives and warned against the dangers of religious moralizing.

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When a candidate campaigns to become a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess, there is always a representation of colors that allows voters to know whom they are voting for.In most cases, candidates will also have a "catchphrase" and a coronation theme for their step-down.Here is a look back at what those were from 2011-2013.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Steve Ha was 18 years old when he was first arrested.He was working on some graffiti in San Jose when the police showed up."It's funny, the whole thing was on the news.I have a VHS tape that my dad recorded.

Robert Flaxman, a Beverly Hills real estate developer who pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiring with William "Rick" Singer, the mastermind behind the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, died by suicide last week at his Malibu home.Flaxman, 66, spent a month in jail and was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and perform 250 hours of community service after he admitted to participating in the admissions scam by paying Singer $75,000 to rig his daughter's ACT exam.

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C ity of London Police have released unbelievable CCTV footage showing the moment a bag was swiped from an unassuming restaurant patron as they warn of thieves across the capital.The footage shows a man at a restaurant in the Bloomgberg Arcade, near Mansion House, who appears to be talking on the phone.

Margaret Ferrier has lost her appeal against a proposed 30-day ban from the House of Commons over Covid rule breaches, paving the way for a byelection in the MP's Scottish constituency.The former Scottish National party MP was found to have damaged the reputation of the House of Commons and put people at risk after taking part in a debate and travelling by train while she had Covid in September 2020.

Some UC Berkeley College Corps Fellows and staff at the swearing-in ceremony on Oct. 7, 2022.Credit: California Volunteers, Office of the Governor At a ceremony earlier this month, 98 UC Berkeley students were sworn in as the first class volunteers as part of CollegeCorps, a new state program that pays low- and middle-income college students $10,000 to do 450 hours of community service.

Garnet Ward has been delivering food with WoodGreen Community Service's Meals on Wheels program for eight years, but lately, his routes have gotten longer."I used to have routes that were normally 10 deliveries, 12 deliveries, and then it got up to 21 for a little while and they managed to cut it back to 16.

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In a courthouse hallway in Los Angeles in early May, I begged my son's public defender to advocate for a mental health program where he could get the treatment he needed.She wasn't listening, not to me or my husband or Soma Snakeoil of the Skid Row nonprofit Sidewalk Project, who advocates for our son.

While there's no shortage of days, weeks and months commemorating mental health-perhaps most notably National Mental Health Awareness Week in May-some students embraced a new one this month: Student Mental Health Week, Feb. 6 to 12.For students like Cherrial Odell of Stanford University, the cause is extremely personal.

I don't have any good intro text other than hey, there's a picture of Capuano and Weight during the Cronin era.The latter has landed his first NHL head coaching gig.Islanders News


On their latest Islanders Anxiety podcast, Dan and Mike promise this is the last time they'll talk about the Kyle Dubas fan-fic (until Athletic Pittsburgh produces yet more cringe-inducing material).

F ootballer-turned-actor Eric Cantona has revealed he is ready to try his hand at a music career.Over the years, Cantona has played for Auxerre, Cordeaux, Leeds United, Manchester United, Marseille, Martigues, Montpellier and Nimes.He also played for the French national team.The French star is often regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation.

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Atlanta Rapper Gunna was on hand Saturday in Miami as the Celtics battled the Heat in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference finals - his first public appearance since negotiating a guilty plea to a racketeering conspiracy charge involving the Young Slime Life gang.

On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) proved once again that he just isn't in on the joke.The humorless three-term senator from Florida is railing against the Los Angeles Dodgers and all of baseball for the team's planned community service award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the irreverent collection of drag nuns with a 40+ year history of good works among the LGBTQ+ community.

Eighteen students who put a young Black man through a notorious fraternity hazing ritual at a prestigious university in Belgium, leading to his death and setting off a national debate about racism, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Friday and ordered to pay fines and perform community service.

Nearly a year after being sentenced to five months in jail, only to be released on bond days later, actor Jussie Smollett has filed his long-awaited appeal claiming his indictment by a special prosecutor was invalid due to double-jeopardy concerns and that the trial judge was biased against him.The 102-page brief filed Wednesday with the Illinois Appellate Court covered mostly familiar ground in the well-worn case against Smollett, the onetime "Empire" star who was convicted by a jury in December 2021 of paying two acquaintances to fake a racist and homophobic attack on him to get exposure and boost his career.

A suburban OB-GYN alleged to have fraudulently charged Illinois' Medicaid program pleaded guilty Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office said.Dr. Monique Brotman billed Medicaid $58,747.57for ultrasounds and other procedures that were not provided, alleged the attorney general's office, which prosecuted the case.

A Brooklyn yeshiva admitted in federal court that it was involved in several overlapping frauds, including one to wrongfully obtain millions of dollars that were designated to feed children in need, prosecutors announced Monday.Central United Talmudic Academy (CUTA) entered a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the government after being charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud.

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A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned the convictions of two wealthy businessmen in the "Operation Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal - including by rejecting a central claim of prosecutors that the fathers had knowingly conspired with other parents to buy their children's way into elite universities.

N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday defended the unusual disciplinary approach for forward Miles Bridges, who was suspended for 30 games for domestic violence but will miss just 10 games in which he is eligible to play.Bridges, 25, was a restricted free agent but did not sign with a team or play during the 2022-23 season after his arrest in California in June, when he was accused of hitting his girlfriend in front of their children.

Local The city will observe One Boston Day with two remembrance events, acts of kindness, and community service.The city of Boston and the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) will host two remembrance events - and more than a dozen volunteer activities will take place citywide - to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, the city announced Monday.

A: Whether it's word of mouth, community service, or online leads, Realtors seek reliable and diversified ways of converting clients.Realtors want to present themselves online as trustworthy and competent, and will find clients for free or through paid services.Realtors self-educate by learning how to find clients for free.

A Naperville woman was sentenced to a year and a half of probation Wednesday for entering the U.S. Capitol with a friend during the Jan. 6 attack and following a mob into a senator's private office, where rioters were rummaging through belongings as security alarms blared.Dawn Frankowski, 54, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a misdemeanor count of illegally demonstrating inside a restricted government building.

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown has been ordered to pay a moving truck driver over $1 million for an alleged attack in 2020.Antonio Brown is no longer a wide receiver in the NFL after he walked off the football field at MetLife Stadium shirtless in the middle of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers-New York Jets game.

In a speech at Chicago's City Club on Tuesday, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx announced she would not be seeking reelection and, at the same time, excoriated both the media and her political opponents for what she claimed was their unfair obsession with the case of Jussie Smollett."Probably when I leave this earth, my epitaph will mention Jussie Smollett," Foxx said from the podium.

A former top aide to a Chicago Public Schools CEO was sentenced to 18 months of probation Thursday for lying to the FBI about passing secret bid information on a $1 billion custodial contract to an operative working for one of the bidders.Pedro Soto, 45, who resigned as then-CEO Janice Jackson's chief of staff in 2020, admitted in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that he repeatedly fed details about CPS' internal bid deliberations to the operative in exchange for "various benefits."

A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program's 24-year history.The Student Achievement Guided by Experience (SAGE) program provides scholars with tools for success, scholarship money and a supportive community to reach their goals during college and after.

During every NFL draft season, various factors can cause a player's value to rise or fall.The weight of those factors gets measured by various scouts, talent evaluators and analysts, with the consensus of a player's evaluation culminating at the Draft in late April.What should we make about the Jalen Carter situation?

New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones has been named a finalist for the 2023 Alan Page Community Award, the NFL Players Association announced Friday.Formed in 1967, the NFLPA's highest honor annually recognizes one player who goes above and beyond to perform community service in their hometown and team's city.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin and the doctors and training staff that saved his life were honored ahead of Super Bowl 57.On the Week 17 edition of Monday Night Football, the NFL world was keeping their eyes peeled for updates on Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who suffered cardiac arrest.He entered University of Cincinnati Medical Center in critical condition, and with each passing day, Hamlin improved.

The Kansas City Chiefs will be without a key piece to their defense for the next two games due to a suspension.This past weekend, the Kansas City Chiefs handedly defeated the San Francisco 49ers, the very team that acquired running back Christian McCaffrey.Kansas City's offense averaged an absurd 9.1 yards per play, while the defense did their part in limiting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.

Former University of Georgia football standout Jalen Carter was sentenced to probation on Thursday for his role in the January crash that killed his teammate and a team staffer.The crash happened hours after the Bulldogs' national championship victory parade.Carter entered pleas of no contest Thursday to charges of racing and reckless driving, according to his attorney, Kim Stephens.

The former sheriff of a suburban Atlanta county was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison on civil rights charges related to his treatment of incarcerated people, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.Victor Hill, previously the Clayton County sheriff, was found guilty in October 2022 on six counts related to incidents in which prosecutors said he ordered detainees to be strapped into a restraint chair and left there for hours.

Jalen Carter, 21, pleaded no contest on Thursday to two misdemeanor charges of reckless driving and racing that stemmed from a car crash in January that killed two people, his lawyer Kim Stephens said in a statement.Carter, a defensive tackle for the University of Georgia and a potential top-five pick in the N.F.L. draft in April, was sentenced to 12 months on probation and will be required to pay a $1,000 fine, perform 80 hours of community service and complete a state-approved defensive driving course.

It was just last month that Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety, lay motionless near the 50-yard line of an N.F.L. stadium his heart still, his teammates in tears and a medical team desperately trying to save his life.Now, Hamlin is among those in Arizona for the pinnacle of the football season, an embodiment both of perseverance and the potential for catastrophic injury that looms over every football game.

Miles Bridges, who played for the Charlotte Hornets last season, pleaded no contest to one felony domestic violence charge of injuring a child's parent, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.He will be placed on three years' probation but will avoid jail time as part of a plea agreement.

A group of Coney Island youth initiatives will be teaming up to host their annual Black History Month event at Surfside Gardens Cornerstone on Friday night.The Coney Island Sharks and Sharkettes, an organization for young adults in the neighborhood, put together a celebratory night of musical performances, presentations, poetry, dancing and more.

Former longtime Mississauga, Ont., mayor Hazel McCallion was remembered as a trailblazing force of nature and the city's most famous citizen during a state funeral Tuesday on what would have been her 102nd birthday.Thousands of people attended the service at Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, where McCallion was remembered for her compassion and leadership, and as someone with a passion for community service, diversity, and women's sports especially hockey.

Canadians are getting an inside look at the world of Indian weddings in all their sequined glory courtesy of a new CBC docu-series featuring a South Asian family that has run a bridal shop for 37 years.For members of the Singh family, Bollywed showcases a Canadian immigrant family and the challenges of running an intergenerational business in Toronto's Little India.

Braves Franchise History
1955 - The National League fines the Milwaukee Braves $500 for opening their spring training camp before the official March 1 start date.MLB History
1903 - A group headed by Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss and James Porter purchases the Philadelphia Phillies from John Rogers.It will be another seven years before ownership in more than one team will be prohibited.

A taxi driver who acted as courier for a criminal cross-Channel operation smuggling Vietnamese people into the UK using a conveyor belt of lorries has avoided jail.Trusted Habib Behsodi was part of a network of people bringing people into the country illegally in the backs of lorries in the Europe-spanning enterprise with the human cargo it helped transport referred to as pork and chicken, intercepted phone messages showed.

Six sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon computer system scandal may have been victims of miscarriages of justice, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review commission has ruled.The six, one of whom has since died and is represented posthumously, are now entitled to appeal against the convictions for crimes of dishonesty arising from their roles as sub postmasters (SPM) at Post Office Ltd (POL).

I hadn't been to a gay bar in ages.Between Covid and addictive dating apps for cruising inappropriately unavailable men, it seemed an almost quaint idea.But on the evening of New Year's Day, the first Saturday in 2022 which could have been the start of a much-needed dry January San Diego didn't have much else to offer a bored, divorced, nearly senior tourist from New York.

A trio of Brooklyn Bar Association committees celebrated the holiday season with charity work at an event dubbed "Coat Drive and Cocktails," a gathering held in support of New York Cares' 34th annual coat drive.Volunteers with the association's diversity, LGBTQ+ and membership committees met at the Remsen Street office in Downtown Brooklyn on Dec. 20 to collect clean, gently used jackets and monetary donations.

Local Suzanne Ianni, a member of "Super Happy Fun America," was sentenced to 15 days in prison.Suzanne Ianni, a former Natick Town Meeting member who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 15 days in prison on Friday, according to the Department of Justice.She was also sentenced to 30 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, and a $500 restitution payment.

The new year will ring in a new Cardi B album - finally.The "Bodak Yellow" and "WAP" rapper, 30, told "The Breakfast Club" Thursday that her long-awaited follow-up to her 2018 debut, "Invasion of Privacy," is around the corner."I have no choice, I have to put it out," said the Bronx native, born Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman won't go to jail for their scheme to discourage minority voters from going to the polls in the 2020 election.A judge in Cleveland sentenced the pair of chronically unsuccessful political operatives to spend 500 hours registering voters " in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area," Cleveland.com

Todd Chrisley, left, and his wife, Julie Chrisley, pose for photos at the 52nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ATLANTA  Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being convicted earlier this year on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion.

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